Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables intracellularly cyclic nucleotide-activated monoatomic cation channel activity. Acts upstream of or within retinal cone cell development. Located in cone photoreceptor outer segment and plasma membrane. Is expressed in eye; gut; and male reproductive gland or organ. Used to study Leber congenital amaurosis 2 and achromatopsia 2. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in achromatopsia 2 and color blindness. Orthologous to human CNGA3 (cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit alpha 3).
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